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Obsidian Bases Formulas: Computed Columns Your Notes Never Have to Store thumbnail
obsidianOct 27, 2026· 3 min
Obsidian Bases Formulas: Computed Columns Your Notes Never Have to Store
Bases formulas let you calculate deadlines, flags, scores, and labels from properties you already have, so your frontmatter stays small and views stay smart.
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Obsidian Bases Kanban: A Board That Is Just Your Notes thumbnail
obsidianOct 2, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian Bases Kanban: A Board That Is Just Your Notes
Obsidian 1.14 adds a native kanban layout to Bases. Here's how to build a board where dragging a card rewrites a property, and where it still falls short.
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Obsidian Bookmarks: The Core Plugin That Replaces Your Dashboard Note thumbnail
obsidianSep 22, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian Bookmarks: The Core Plugin That Replaces Your Dashboard Note
Bookmarks can pin saved searches, headings, blocks, and whole tab groups, not just three notes, which makes the hand-maintained dashboard note redundant.
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Obsidian's Note Composer: Refactor Your Notes Without Copy-Paste thumbnail
obsidianSep 11, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian's Note Composer: Refactor Your Notes Without Copy-Paste
Note composer is a core Obsidian plugin that merges notes and extracts selections into new ones, rewriting your links as it goes. Here's how to actually use it.
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Semantic Search in Obsidian: What Embeddings Find That Keywords Miss thumbnail
obsidianSep 8, 2026· 4 min
Semantic Search in Obsidian: What Embeddings Find That Keywords Miss
Obsidian's search operators are precise, but they only find notes when you remember the words you used.
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Writing an Obsidian Plugin Is Smaller Than You Think thumbnail
obsidianAug 25, 2026· 3 min
Writing an Obsidian Plugin Is Smaller Than You Think
Most people patch around a missing Obsidian feature with a Templater script and a CSS snippet. The plugin API is often the shorter path, and the surface…
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Obsidian Workspaces: Stop Rebuilding Your Layout Every Time You Switch Tasks thumbnail
obsidianAug 18, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian Workspaces: Stop Rebuilding Your Layout Every Time You Switch Tasks
Workspaces is a core Obsidian plugin that saves your entire pane layout under a name and restores it in one command.
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One Vault or Many? What Splitting an Obsidian Vault Actually Costs You thumbnail
obsidianAug 14, 2026· 4 min
One Vault or Many? What Splitting an Obsidian Vault Actually Costs You
Splitting your Obsidian vault feels like tidying up, but a vault boundary is a hard wall your search, links, and queries cannot cross.
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Obsidian Search Operators: Find Anything Without a Plugin thumbnail
obsidianAug 11, 2026· 3 min
Obsidian Search Operators: Find Anything Without a Plugin
Obsidian's core Search has a real query language hiding behind the search box. Here's how file, path, line, block, section, task, and property operators…
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Obsidian Block Embeds: Stop Copy-Pasting Your Own Notes thumbnail
obsidianAug 7, 2026· 3 min
Obsidian Block Embeds: Stop Copy-Pasting Your Own Notes
Whole-note embeds are the easy part. Block references are where transclusion in Obsidian actually pays off, and where one misplaced caret silently breaks…
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